King Leopold II

Nsala was a Congolese man from the village of Wala in the Congo Free State, tragically immortalized in a photograph taken by english missionary Alice Seeley Harris on May 14, 1904. The image captures Nsala sitting in silent grief,...

Few chapters in colonial history are as harrowing and tragic as the exploitation of the Congo Free State under the rule of King Leopold II of Belgium from 1885 to 1908. While the atrocities, described as one of the...

Leopold II, the King of Belgium from 1865 to 1909, is infamous for his brutal rule and exploitation of the Congo Free State, a vast territory in central Africa

King Leopold's Force Publique had one major purpose and that was to enforce the rubber quotas and other forms of forced labour on the people of congo.